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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 22, p. 27.

SANCHI 27 Sanauda.-Thakurkt in the MALWA AGENCY, Central India. Sanaur.-Town in the Patiala tahsil, Karmgarh nizamat, Patiala State, Punjab, situated in 30° 18' N. and 76° 3r' E., 4 miles south-east of Patiala town. Population (igor), 8,58o. It is a place of some antiquity; and in the reign of Babar, Malik Baha-ud-din, the Khokhar, became the chief of Sanaur with 84 circumjacent villages, whence the pargana was known as the Chaurasi. In 1748 it was conquered by Ala Singh, Raja of Patiala, who founded his new capital of Patiala in the neighbourhood. It has a considerable trade in agricultural produce, but is decaying owing to the vicinity of Patiala town. Sanaur has an Anglo-vernacular middle school and a police station. Sanawan Tahsil.-Northernmost tahsil of Muzaffargarh District, Punjab, lying between 30° 5' and 30° 47' N. and 70° 44' and 71° 47' E., with an area of 1,321 square miles. Its western border rests on the Indus. The country along the banks is low-lying and is only protected from floods by embankments. The eastern portion of the tahsil lies in the high sandy Thal. The population in rgor was ioo,ogr, com- pared with 94,245 in 1891. It contains 140 villages, including Sand- wan, the head-quarters. DAIRA DIN PANAH is a place of some religious interest. The land revenue and cesses in 1903-4 amounted to 1-8 lakhs. Sanchi.-Ancient site in the Bhopal State, Central India, situated in 23° 29' N. and 77° 45' E., 52 miles from Bhilsa, on the Midland section of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. The country between Sanchi and Bhilsa is famous as the site of the most extensive Buddhist remains now known in India, though, as Fergusson has pointed out, they may not have possessed the same importance in Buddhist times, and owe their survival to their situation in a remote and thinly-peopled country. The present village of Sanchi stands at the foot of a small flat-topped hill of sandstone rising 300 feet above the plain. On the centre of the level summit, and on a narrow belt leading down the western slope of the hill, stand the principal remains, which consist of the great stupa, a smaller one, a chaitya hall, and some ruined shrines. The great stupa, the chief object of interest, stands conspicuously in the centre of the hill. This building forms a segment of a sphere, solid throughout, and built of red sandstone blocks, with a diameter of r ro feet at the base. A berm 15 feet high, sloping outwards at the base, forms a raised pathway 52 feet wide round the stupa, giving it a total diameter Of 121 feet 6 inches. The top of the mound is flat and originally supported a stone railing and the usual pinnacle. This railing was still standing in 18rg. When complete, the full height must have been 772 feet. The stupa is enclosed by a massive stone railing, with monolithic uprights r i feet high, which is pierced by four VOL. XXIL C